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Care home residents watch the ships come in

By: info@aliveactiv...
On: 8th January 2013

iPads can be used in guided reminiscence sessions to give a more enhanced personal experience to care home residents. When I'm out and about, if I happen to spot something happening in places of historical interest, I film it on the iPad (keeping it as still as possible). Then, when I meet people who may have spent time in that place, I show them the footage.

I filmed a couple of minutes of the ship The Balmoral coming into port at Bristol harbour entrance last week. more >

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Eva Radio podcasts now available

By: jennie@aunehead...
On: 21st December 2012

A group of older volunteers - some with dementia, and some carers, and some just interested in the issues of ageing and addressing the changes in life as we get older - have been making a regular fortnightly radio programme with support from the Nominet Trust and others.

The programme airs on SounDart Radio 102.5fm in the Totnes and Dartington area, online at soundartradio.org.uk, and is made available as a podcast at eva-radio.net. The programme airs every other Thursday at 10am.

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Training Day for Gransnet Local

By: Geraldine@grans...
On: 13th December 2012

The run-up to our first training day with the Local Editors was, to put it mildly, busy. Putting together a site of this scale is a huge undertaking and our tech team have been working all hours to get it up to scratch.

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Citizen historians and social change

By: nick.stanhope@w...
On: 30th November 2012

Over the last 18 months, We Are What We Do, through our Historypin project, has been working with Nominet Trust to harness the social power of digital citizen history.

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“We don’t have a culture of panic around here”

By: stephen@carrick...
On: 23rd November 2012

Supporting excluded young people in Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) can be challenging, especially when it comes to the use and misuse of social media. Stephen Carrick-Davies, author of the ‘Munch Poke Ping’ report shares what mainstream schools can learn from the work being done in PRUs.

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Our widget is live

By: edmitchell@tran...
On: 21st November 2012

The Transition Project Sharing Engine project is an experiment to see whether we can:

Produce a widget for webmasters to put on their own Transition Initiative websites
See whether community groups will moderate content that is shared by a wider movement
Build a growing community of webmasters in a movement to support eachother

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